It looks like the Democrats control of Congress is proving to be record setting in more ways than gender equity.
Nancy, Harry, and the Code Pink agenda of all Bush bashing all the time has now made them the most unpopular Congress in the history of polling.
Nancy, Harry, and the Code Pink agenda of all Bush bashing all the time has now made them the most unpopular Congress in the history of polling.
Snap!
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Something is happening that you may want to know about. The people at Iowans for Tax Relief have decided that Iowans don't need to hear from Dr. Ron Paul. They are hosting a Presidential Candidate forum, but don't want Dr. Paul as one of the speakers. The story can be found at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods72.html
An interesting exchange occurred between the head of Dr. Paul's campaign and the head of Iowans for tax relief. You can listen at: http://media.libsyn.com/media/mickelson/mickelson-2007-06-20.mp3 You'll need to move to 1:01:16 in the recording.
If you feel that Iowan's deserve the opportunity to listen to different views from the presidential candidates, please contact anyone you know that may influence this decision. Dr. Paul brings many ideas to the table, and deserves to be heard.
Thank you.
Mark Crowe
Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs.
Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs.
By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list.
BOSTON - A CNN reporter gave $500 to John Kerry's campaign the same month he was embedded with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
A junior editor at Dow Jones Newswires gave $1,036 to the liberal group MoveOn.org and keeps a blog listing "people I don't like," starting with George Bush, Pat Robertson, the Christian Coalition, the NRA and corporate America ("these are the people who are really in charge").
MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission.
Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
George Stephanopolus - host of ABC's Sunday news program - Democrat political operative for Bill Clinton.
Tim Russert - Host of Meet the Press - NBC's Sunday news program -Democrat political operative for Tip O'Neill - former Democrat Speaker.
Chris Matthews - Host of MSNBC's Hardball - Democrat political operative for Jimmy Carter.
Maybe he could take the chair vacated by John McQuisling.
http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?viewID=1847
Check out this hilarious story from West Branch Iowa recounting an Edwards Campaign stop. Read the last part first.
A few excerpts:
This, my friends, was a strange political event.
Let’s start at the beginning, or perhaps a bit sooner. Edwards and her children were supposed to be arriving from Iowa City at a Main Street restaurant, Bruster’s, around 3:20 p.m.
Of course, no one at Bruster’s knew that and when the Edwards campaign staff discovered, around 2:30 p.m., that Main Street wasn’t the hub of activity they’d expected, they moseyed on down to the Village Green.
Instead of arriving late, as political types tend to do, the Edwards family arrived about half an hour early.
The only forewarning West Branch had of the visit was some word-of-mouth advertising and an online news story posted last Wednesday, when I first got confirmation.
Elizabeth Edwards then introduced herself to a park ranger from the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, a story that already has several versions.
At this point, there are two things I can report for sure. First, the National Park Service was not informed prior to the visit that there would be a political event on the Village Green.
Secondly, after the encounter, Edwards, her children and her staff — including a male videographer and a female photographer — exited the Village Green in a prompt fashion.
It gets weirder.
After a brief stop at a Little League game in Beranek Park, where Emma Claire mentioned that her softball team’s name is the Hawkeyes, the family ventured on to Tipton to rejoin their favorite candidate.
Oh, but that’s not entirely accurate — or at least it wasn’t on Saturday. When the Edwardses visited the Cedar County Democrats’ tent, Mrs. Edwards asked her daughter which of the presidential candidates she liked best.
Did she point to dear old Dad? No, she pointed to Hillary Clinton.
One strange political event, indeed.
By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | June 21, 2007
Gathering for their April meeting at the county courthouse, Republican activists from Warren County, Iowa, planned for this summer's county fair and vented about illegal immigration.
And then the county chairman for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, Chad Workman, made an unexpected digression: He took direct aim at Mitt Romney's religion, according to four people at the meeting.
Workman questioned whether Mormons were Christians, discussed an article alleging that the Mormon Church helps fund Hamas, and likened the Mormons' treatment of women to the Taliban's, said participants, who requested anonymity to discuss the meeting freely.
The most recent example came to light earlier this week when the Washington Post reported that Emma Nemecek, an Iowa field operative for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, had recently forwarded an e-mail to Iowa Republicans containing a number of criticisms of Mormonism, including a charge that it is not a Christian faith.
The e-mail closed with a quote from a Founding Father, John Jay: "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
"This violated campaign policy," said Brownback spokesman Brian Hart. "The person that did it has apologized and been reprimanded, and Senator Brownback has disavowed . . . anything that would attack anyone's personal faith."
The campaign of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was forced to make a similar apology this month after The New York Sun reported that Katie Harbath, Giuliani's deputy e-campaign director, had forwarded to a blogger a story in The Salt Lake Tribune linking Romney to an unofficial Mormon prophecy that a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would one day save the Constitution.
"Thought you'd find this interesting," Harbath wrote to the blogger, the Sun reported
Last year, when Romney and McCain were battling to sign up supporters in key states, Romney's campaign got word that Chuck Larson, a former Iowa GOP chairman and now one of McCain's top Iowa advisers, had been calling Mormonism a "cult" while trying to woo state legislators and their staff.
One Republican Larson approached, who would talk only on condition of anonymity, said that Larson told him, "He's a Mormon for crying out loud -- that's essentially a cult."
When David Kochel, a senior Romney adviser in Iowa, learned of Larson's comments, he complained to Larson's business partners.
Larson then called back to apologize, according to Kochel, who recounted Larson's apology this way: "David, I just want you to know that I made a joke about Governor Romney's religion. It is not the kind of thing I'm proud of, and it's not the kind of thing I will ever do again."
Larson declined to comment.
There have been other scattered instances of McCain representatives raising Romney's religion.
Earlier this year, for example, The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., reported that McCain operatives had distributed to reporters comments by evangelical leader James Dobson questioning whether a Mormon could win the presidency.
Asked about such instances, Danny Diaz, a McCain spokesman, said in a statement: "On behalf of Senator McCain, we apologize for any comments made on the part of this campaign concerning Governor Romney's religion."
A Florida televangelist, Bill Keller, told followers recently that a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan. And a small group of worship ers from the Faith Christian Outreach Church in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has been going door-to-door distributing a DVD that takes a critical look at the Mormon Church.
"Our concern was simply that Mormonism has continued to try and pass itself off as a Christian religion, which it is not," said Monte Knudsen, senior pastor at the church, who insisted the effort was not aimed at hurting Romney's candidacy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The revival of the Senate's immigration legislation also resurrected a rare split inside organized labor.
The AFL-CIO formally came out against the bill Wednesday, reflecting the distaste among manufacturing unions and others whose members have been displaced by overseas competition and would have to compete with an influx of cheaper workers who don't have labor rights.
Embracing the bill are a couple of unions that cater to workers in the fast-growing service sector of the economy and also split from the AFL-CIO in 2005.
They've seen their membership rosters swell with immigrants taking jobs in hotels and restaurants and as janitors.
The Senate legislation would legalize some 12 million unlawful immigrants and create a new temporary guest worker program wanted by employers in virtually all sectors of the economy. That's where the unions' interests diverge.
Senator Tom Harkin made poor decisions and wasted taxpayers' dollars while he was overseeing spending for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Harkin spent $106 million in taxpayer dollars to fund a building named after himself.
A recent report says the CDC "wasted and continues to waste hundreds of millions of tax dollars, but keeps asking taxpayers for more."
While the entire project cost over $1 billion dollars, the Iowa Democrat used $106 million in tax dollars to fund a new communications center named the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, which includes a 70-foot-wide-by-25-foot-tall wall of plasma video screens for visitors, and a video production studio that cost $18.6 million alone.
This is clearly a waste of taxpayers' dollars, yet Harkin oversaw and approved this spending simply to get his name on a building in Atlanta, Georgia. American taxpayers deserve better.
For more information on this story, please go to the link below.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-12-cdc-coburn_N.htm
I'm glad Kochel didn't let that guy off the hook. Good for him!
When was Larson chair of the party? Recently or a while back? Was he any good?
John McCain's standing has dropped in Iowa among Republican contenders in the presidential race.
A new poll shows ratings for the Arizona senator, once viewed a front-runner for the nomination, in the single digits.
At the head of the GOP pack is Mitt Romney. Fred Thompson, the actor-politician who hasn't formally said he's running, is tied for second with Rudy Giuliani.
The poll was done after Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, and McCain said they would skip the Iowa straw poll in August.
Mindful of his charisma and tendency to hog the attention, the campaign has played the Bill card carefully - keeping him in the shadows while giving Hillary Clinton time to establish herself independently. They followed a similar pattern in 2000 when she first ran for the Senate in New York.
"The president's plan all along was to gradually escalate his involvement, so you'll be seeing him more and more," said campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson. "We think he is a huge asset and we're excited to have him."
Behind the scenes, he's increased his fundraising since last quarter, headlining numerous high-dollar events for his wife across the country. He also narrated a five-minute biographical Web video and loaned his acting skills to a witty send-up of the final scene of "The Sopranos."
While the couple appeared together at several fundraisers throughout the year, they've attended just one campaign event together - a civil rights commemoration in Selma, Ala., where Sen. Clinton was competing with rival Democrat Barack Obama for attention and support.
That will change the first week in July, when the Clintons plan a three-day campaign swing through Iowa. Polls there show the New York senator in a tough fight with Obama and John Edwards, even as she leads in national polls and most other state surveys.
The Clintons will also campaign together in New Hampshire July 13.
Bill Clinton--the only President in the last 50 years to be more popular at the end of his two terms than he was at the beginning.
Hmmm... Spotlight, that was because he was leaving office. The sound of that, even this Jedi did like....
Careful Yoda .... you could hurt your scrawny neck trying to spin like that.
Uncle Ted, the rumor mill is buzzing with talk that Fred Thompson has hired Andrew Dorr as a member of his national team that would oversee Iowa.
Thoughts?
Andrew Dorr?????
Why would anyone hire him after the show he and Nick Ryan put on for the Nussle campaign?
Most of the commentary that appears on these blogs is pretty small time gossip. This is once when I have to say that the Andrew Dorr hire would be a very big mistake. No one outside of a few Nussle insiders will be willing to work with either of them.
Ted, what can you do about this?
Chris:
Check out this article about Iowans for Tax Relief.
http://www.rothcpa.com/archives/001719.php
Spotlight, the point is that your hero is an impeached, convicted purjeror who had to give up his law license, all while engaging in innapropriate sexual conduct with a intern over whom he had a tremendous power advantage, committed serial adultery, and on and on and on.
That's amazing to Republicansd. That tells us alot about how democrats value character. Democrats don't care about character. They only care about categories and divisions.
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